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Downfield Throwing

It seems the Bucs will be throwing long passes mostly this season, based on Bucs GM Jason Licht’s words.

Last night, for a brief moment, Joe thought uber wide receiver Sammie Watkins would be falling to the Bucs. That would have been a chance Joe never would have predicted.

But it didn’t happen. Buffalo traded up and snagged him. And the Bucs got their target, Texas A&M wide receiver Mike Evans.

Bucs general manager Jason Licht explained the difference between Watkins and Evans.

“They were very similar but they were different at the same time,” Licht said. “You had one guy that’s a run-after-catch, very explosive speed guy, and you have one guy that is a down the field, throw up the ball, 50-50, and he’s going to come down with most of them – I’m talking about contested catches. His skill set we felt was perfect for us.”

Well, here is a peek at what Jeff Tedford’s offense will be: shots downfield.

Where have we heard that before, a desire to “take shots downfield?” Joe recalls the halcyon Byron Leftwich era.

43 Responses to “Downfield Throwing”

We have some real matchup problems for defenses now with Jackson, Evans & Wright…..I hope we get some speed and YAC WR for the slot.
I would love to see a 2 RB backfield with Martin & Demps….along with 3 WR set.

“Shots downfield” was Schiano. And it is an awful philosophy in today’s game. Passing shouldn’t be hope and a prayer.

“On the field what is it going to look like? Great defense, win the special teams battle, and be a physical offensive football team that takes shots down the field,” Schiano said. “Take shots down the field. It is very hard to go 12, 13, 14 play drives. If we miss on a shot we will line up and play defense again. Get the ball back and go after them again. Physical. Run the football physically and take shots down the field. That formula works. As long as you play great defense and win the kicking game that formula works.”

Maybe Lovie is really thinking Glennon to be the future QB for us. How many times did we see bad throws by Glennon to be cought by V-Jack. Evans will also keep bad throws off the ground for Glennon. Maybe Tedford and Arroyo can help him with his accuracy.

I hope it works out, but I think they will eventially they will be fired for passing on a special franchise QB. While we struggle along with poor QB play.
When he dropped into the 20’s and they made no effort to go get him. Inexcusable !! The better move up in round 2 and get Carr !!

4.3 Demps, Murphy, Owusu, Dawson 6 5 Package VJax, Evans, Wright, Maneri, Streeter!! Tedford knows how to use a speed package, knows how to use the big package. He will have all three running backs in to create mismatches. All there in the mini camp notes. Please read.

Lurker, sounds like you’re not on the Lovie train?! I don’t agree with everything they’ve done either but you and I have no idea what this will look like come regular season. We have to hope that they know what they are doing.
Out of curiosity, why do you say “no leadership”? I can somewhat agree with his inaccuracy and immobility but leadership, the guy was a 3rd round rookie who was not expected to start.
What exactly are the expectations for 3rd round draft choices these days?
I hate to say it but you might want to start warming to the idea that the Bucs are going to field McCown, Glennon, and Kafka as regular season QBs.

I’ll take the 11 inch reach advantage that Evans has over Sammy Watkins as opposed to the 1/10 second 40 yard dash advantage that Sammy has over Evans. If Bucs fans are sour because he’s “not fast”, well than neither is Sammy Watkins when you compare him to Owusu or Demps.

What killed me last night was the last pick. We were one pick away from having Bridgewater available for the Texans.

Thanks to the Browns trading up for their third first rounder, now there is not even a glimmer of hope that Carr falls to us. He’ll be the first pick of round 2.

That leaves only two QBs worth considering on the board, and I don’t see us taking Garapolo (sp). It’s a big gamble to hopee Murray is there in round 5.

No way the Texans will trade away their first pick tonight either. Unless we offer Glennon.

I won’t say Glennon doesn’t have potential. I wanted to keep him. But I wanted serious competition for him. Doesn’t look like that will happen.

If Lovie doesn’t address QB in the next 2 picks then he learned nothing during his year off. Right now, I feel justified in dropping my season tickets. If they don’t get a QB by round three I won’t even buy single game tickets this year.

If his “Glennon is the QB of the future” wasn’t just smoke and mirrors or an effort to drive up trade value, then all this talk of having learned from past experience is bull.

C’mon Bonzai, don’t give up yet! What if McCown is the next Gannon and Glennon continues to progress from learning under him? What about the QB class in 2015 or 2016?
Don’t be so short-sighted, we haven’t played game #1 yet. There is hope(despite the haters!). This is only year 2 for Mikey.
With the McCown signing, QB was no longer a “need” position in the draft. They chose to focus on the most glaring hole on the team instead. There’s still rounds 2-7, hang in there man!

BuccaneerBonzai Says:
May 9th, 2014 at 1:08 pm
I won’t say Glennon doesn’t have potential. I wanted to keep him. But I wanted serious competition for him. Doesn’t look like that will happen.
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Serious competition for what? Backup? Josh McCown is the locked in starter….Glennon is the locked in backup….I’m missing where Glennon needs competition. He’s competiting to start, not competiting against someone to backup.

Bottom line. Combination of film and the mini camp must have told L&L that Glennon is at least OK. Or judge the QB position is settled until after next season.

As for the Johnny Football fans. We may never know how good or bad is can be. He’s in Cleveland where QB’s go to die. Can he break that curse? We shall see. He looked as happy as Sapp was when he fell to the Bucs. It worked out OK for Warren.

“Glennon is the future” comment. It’s either more smoke or their legit thinking. If they don’t go QB with the #2 pick, I think it’s safe to say that comment that has people in a Tizzy is their legit view and opinion.

I think the Evans pick was strong but I can admit that I was a little bummed that it wasn’t Manziel, but it really wasn’t for football related reasons. With the extra two weeks before the draft, and from checking this site every single day for Bucs news, I was bombarded with Johnny Football stories. Now, I’m not one to watch ESPN unless it’s an actual sporting event (I watch the NFL draft on NFL Network). I do my best to avoid the endless hype of any particular player and while I enjoyed watching Johnny play college ball, I really had no idea if he would be a boom or bust player in the NFL. I’m confident in the new regime and would hope for the best.

In any event, with the draft approaching, I caught a bit of Johnny fever. I knew that with his unorthodox playing style, there was a good chance that he would bust, but I also knew that for the first time ever, the Bucs would be the talk of the NFL. No more cutting to commercial while the Bucs were on the clock during the draft, or always been the underdog (which to be fair isn’t always a bad thing) in any big game. Even in 2002 there were people counting out the Bucs, and finally the team would be relevant.

So, the draft comes around and the Bucs pick Mike Evans, who I was fine with as I feel he’ll be an impact player. And later on the Browns would pick Johnny and that was it. At the end of the day I realized that while it’s nice to be the center of attention, that doesn’t guarantee success (see Jets and Cowboys for some of the best examples). Teams win games and championships that are often ignored by the mainstream media. And really, at the end of the day, why was I clamoring for attention from the media who I barely give attention to of my own? So, yeah, I had the fever for a couple weeks, but I’m over it and believe in this regime and hope for the best. I doubt Glennon is the franchise QB of the future, but I think this team will start winning again and I’ll be there to see what happens.

schiano wanted to do the same, pound the run and then take shots off playaction. it’s a sensible idea, but when we had the run game we didn’t have the defense to keep the game close, and when we had the defense we had no RB and nobody to draw attention from our big play WR. hope it all comes together this time around

@Bonzai, I understand your concern, and while Carr is possible and Im ok with it, theres plenty more players to go see with your ticke.

I’d LOVE to be close enough to go to a Bucs game from here in SC. The Carolina or Atlanta games are about as close as I’ll get until I build up vacation time at work…then I’ll go and be able to experience being surrounded by other Buc fans.